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TIL the Catholic Church purchased the area of the KKK headquarters and turned it into a church

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x6e9B TIL all British main battle tanks are equipped with a "boiling vessel", a water heater which the crew can use to boil hot water and heat meals. Introduced at the end of WW2, it is often referred to by tank crews as "the most important piece of equipment in a British armoured vehicle".
lWM1 TIL that the US Department of Education made around 51 Billion dollar profit off of government student loans, equivient to the profit of PMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo combined.
9XQ7 TIL a nutrition professor lost 27 pounds off of a “Convencience Store” diet of Twinkies, Doritos, and sugary cereals in order to prove that weight loss relied on caloric intake, not nutrition.
j69MQ TIL that Horace Walpole, who wrote what is considered to be the first gothic/horror novel (The Castle of Otranto), was the son of the UK’s first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole.
mxMwY TIL I learned that quarterbacks Joe Montana, Joe Namath, Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, Johnny Unitas and George Blanda all grew up in and around Pittsburgh.